Könyv Congo Andrew C A Jampoler

Congo

The Miserable Expeditions and Dreadful Death of Lt. Emory Taunt, USN

Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Elérhetőség: 50 % esély
Keressük az egész világon
15 454 Ft
Lauded for his ability to tell compelling, true adventure stories, award-winning author Andrew C.A....

Információk a könyvről

Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2013
oldal
272
EAN
9781612510798
ISBN
9781612510798
Enbook ID
06319392
Súly
578
Méretek
152 x 229 x 25

Teljes leírás

Lauded for his ability to tell compelling, true adventure stories, award-winning author Andrew C.A. Jampoler has turned his attention this time to a young American naval officer on a mission up the Congo River in May 1885. Lt. Emory Taunt was ordered to explore as much of the river as possible and report on opportunities for Americans in the potentially rich African marketplace. A little more than five years later, Taunt, 39, was buried near the place he had first come ashore in Africa. His personal demons and the Congo''s lethal fevers had killed him. In 2011, to better understand what happened, Jampoler retraced Taunt''s expedition in an outboard motorboat. Striking photographs from the author''s trip are included to lend a visual dimension to the original journey. Readers join Taunt in his exploration of some 1400 miles of river and follow him on two additional assignments. A commercial venture to collect elephant ivory in the river''s great basin and an appointment as the U.S. State Department''s first resident diplomat in Boma, capital of King Leopold II''s Congo Free State, are filled with promise. But instead of becoming rich and famous, he died alone, bankrupt, and disgraced. Jampoler''s account of what went so dreadfully wrong is both thrilling and tragic. He provides not only a fascinating look at Taunt''s brief and extraordinary life, but also a glimpse of the role the United States played in the birth of the Congo nation, and the increasingly awkward position Washington found itself as stories of atrocities against the natives began to leak out.

Érdekelheti

Municipal Register

Boston Statistics Department
13 476 Ft
6 483 Ft
7 648 Ft

Eco Bible

YONATAN NERIL
4 577 Ft

Bodacious

C. M. Lally
5 187 Ft

Bobbsey Twins

LAURA LEE HOPE
4 021 Ft
12 069 Ft
31 333 Ft
32 001 Ft

Sugar Street

Naguib Mahfouz
4 891 Ft

Spoiled

Caitlin Macy
6 142 Ft
5 416 Ft
24 653 Ft
88 512 Ft

Cauchy Problem

Hector O. FattoriniAdalbert Kerber
90 319 Ft

Coercive Control

Evan D. Stark
14 131 Ft
6 640 Ft

Azok a vásárlók, akik ezt a könyvet megvásárolták, a következőket is megvásárolták